Structures of new cars market of Russia and St. Petersburg are quite different. If the absolute leader of Russia is Lada, then Nissan brand pushed a domestic producer from the leading position in the North capital.

Analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a study of passenger cars in Russia as of July 1st, 2016. According to the study, the share of foreign cars was 59% of the parc of the total number of registered cars in the country, which corresponds to 24.25 million units.

KAMAZ has published financial results for the six months of 2016 by IAS. According to the information of portal "Vesti of KAMAZ", the consolidated revenue of the Group for six months of 2016 increased compared to the same period of last year by 34% and it was 47.222 billion rubles (for 6 months of 2015 it was 35.145 billion rubles).

In the I half of 2016 the revenue of Group "Sollers" was 13.4 billion rubles against 15.7 billion rubles a year before. The EBITDA for the period was 1.46 billion rubles (1.79 billion rubles in the I half of 2015), profitability on EBITDA - 10,8%, informed the press service of "Sollers".

At the end of August in Paris in presence of 1500 special guests Scania has organized a solemn presentation of its new truck range. Introduced model range – is the result of ten years of technological development and investment of about 20 billion Swedish kronor.

Group of companies "ACOM" on August 27th launched a new production line for the production of car batteries in Zhigulevsk. Moreover, with the launch of new equipment at the plant it was started serial production of the first import-substituting product - EFB Class batteries, advanced batteries with liquid electrolyte.

Kaliningrad plant "Autotor" continues to develop its project on the organization of the automotive cluster in the "SEZ Kaliningrad" and currently it is in search of automotive component manufacturers. In an interview with the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" the General Director of "Holding Autotor", Alexander Sorokin, said about it.

Ford Sollers Company delivered a lot of 61 school buses on the basis of the new Ford Transit for the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian government orders for the purchase of new school buses for the regions, prepared by the Ministry of Industry of Russia.

AvtoVAZ has announced new features and power unit for high hatchback LADA XRAY. In October, the model will appear at dealers with 1.8 engine mated to a manual transmission. According to project director, Oleg Grunenkov, AvtoVAZ’s 122-horsepower engine will be aggregated with a 5-speed manual gearbox from Renault (JR5).

The company Geely has presented at the Moscow Motor Show the model range of 2017. The main premiere became the flagship sedan Emgrand GT (GC-9), from the exterior of which the team led by Peter Horbury began the developing of the design of new Geely cars.

Kaliningrad plant "Autotor" is preparing to start of production of a number of models of BMW. In an interview with the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" the general director of " Autotor Holding ", Alexander Sorokin.

Russian champions and winners of the summer Olympic Games - 2016, held in the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro, the country's government has decided to award by BMW cars, assembled at the Kaliningrad plant "Autotor".

Renault has started the deliveries of Russian cars to Kyrgyzstan, by expanding the export project in the neighboring countries. Recall, the direction of export deliveries to CIS countries (CIS) has been successfully developed by Renault Russia since 2010.

Om August 22nd at the Moscow "Expocentre" it was opened the 20th Anniversary International Exhibition of spare parts, automotive components, equipment and products for the maintenance of vehicles Automechanika - 2016.

According to the survey, conducted by the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", in the structure of sales of LADA Vesta and XRAY the share of vehicles, equipped with automatic transmission (AMT), is every six car in average.

At the Moscow Motor Show, which will begin its work on August 24th at the International Exhibition Center "Crocus Expo" AvtoVAZ will have the largest stand in the whole history of the brand that covers an area of 2 sq. meters.